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Learn how Colombia's rural farmers make and sell cocaine.
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37 responses // Making Cocaine

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    Does anyone have some kind of idea on how much the merchants make? I''ve never messed or even been around cocaine. What does it normally sell for?

    lukeabruner
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    This is bad for you so dont you even think about it. The US GoV should do more to stop its demand!!!!!!!!!!

    usumacinta
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    by no means am I interested in selling it or using it. I''m just wondering what goes on after it leaves these guys.

    lukeabruner
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    This should be shown in REHAB facilities. It might help keep Lindsey, Brittany and Paris clean and sober!

    Great piece! Well done!

    williefab
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    Hi luke
    I am the producer of the pod. the merchants should make around U$2.000 a kilo. and when it is sold outside Colombia, it gets to cost between U$25.000 and 50.000

    manuel1co
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    Vice Magazine's Trace Crutchfield takes us to Bolivia, where Bolivian president Evo Morales was himself a coca farmer and a leader of a movement to resist eradication of the crop by the United States. The cocalero movement cites the medicinal and other beneficial uses of the plant.

    khsing
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    Part 1 of an excellent six-part documentary about where cocaine comes from, and what really happens behind the scenes.

    khsing
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    From the user-contributed data site Swivel comes information about coca production in various South American countries.

    khsing
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    Web site from the White House details figures on cocaine use, production and trafficking.

    khsing
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    Globally, the use and production of illegal drugs fell between 2000 and 2006.

    khsing
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    I don''t do cocaine anymore, but it would still be my drug of choice. However, after watching this, I don''t think I could support this industry, legal arguments aside. I had no idea the coca farmers were making so little money. It''s unbelievable and wrong.

    mychellefyve
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    This is facinating yet sad at the same time. I''d like to know how the producers were able to get this. Great piece of work. Not enough is being done to take the mystery out of cocaine, and this is a step in the right direction. All of a sudden it''s not so glamorous anymore. I wanted to add that while I was in Peru, I asked why the farmers weren''t growing different crops, and one of the comments that was posed to me was the fact that coca is SO EASY to grow. It is also resistent to many or most pests. A recent BBC report claims that there is a rise in European demand. It''s not going away anytime soon.

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    The fact that the farmers pictured are making so little money is hard hitting, although the sellers of these drugs are hauling on the deal.

    Perhaps high school level teens should be watching documentary style videos like this at school, learning and discussing not only the consequences they may face due to use. More importantly the way that they are exploiting the farmers that are growing these plants and producing.

    JoshuaIsaac
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    Really amazing pod, I had no idea that that is what goes into the production of cocaine. I think this could work as a good anti-drug pod because it isn't preachy, it just shows that you are putting ammonia and gasoline into your body....nasty.

    sarahbelle
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    Crazy...

    bstein
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    Sumi and Kasia try their hand at wraps-- introducing their favorite pod of the Top 71 of 2007.

    KasiaC
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    Brilliant!

    bstein
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    Russ Finkelstein introduces his favorite pod of '07 with a recipe of his own.

    http://www.milkfatfilms.com

    RussJayFinkelstein
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    wow really fascinating, great work!

    kelseyherm
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    Two Baylor College of Medicine researchers in Houston are working on a cocaine vaccine they hope will become the first-ever medication to treat people hooked on the drug.

    julietp
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    i only did it once unfortunately before I had to quit drugs.

    paulisthefuture
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    Thanks forposting...now I'll be off, to...just not do that...yeah...bye...

    steadward
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    Wow. This strips coke of all the "glamour" and hype that usually surrounds the drug when ppl talk about it.
    The plight of the Colombian farmers is made so much more compelling since you actually got access to people who have no choice but make their living this way. The footage of the step-by-step process gave the data and statistics you included all the more impact. Well done

    hynese
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    Its kinda scary to think of what the farmers are doing with the left over chemicals after they process the coca into paste. I wonder what the ecological impact is ?

    VooDooChile
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    That video was very informative, thank you.

    teddymafia
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